Plough, Inc.
Volume 65 · 65 F.T.C. 613
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Plough, Inc., 65 F.T.C. 613 (1964). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v065-0022
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IN THE MATTER OF PLOUGH, INC., ET AL.
ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD '10 THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERA TRADE COMMISSIO ACT Docket 8563. Complaint, :Mar. 19 1963-DeeisifJn, Apr. 80, 1964 Order dismissing, in 'View of the Feb. 20, 1964, dismissal of a similar complaint in Sterling Drug, Inc. Docket 85' 64 )\"'I'. C. 898, complaint charging the distributor of "St. .Joseph Aspirin" and its advertising agency with representi falsely that "America s leading medical journal" reported that St. .Joseph Aspirin was the best buy in pain relief.
COMPLAINT Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Aet and by virtue of the authority vested in it by said Act, the Federal Trade Commission, hn.ving rea.son to believe that Plough, Inc., a corporation, and Lake-Spiro-Shurma, , Inc., a corporation, hereinafter referred to as respondents, have violated the provisions of said Act and it ,,appearing to the Commission that a proceding by it in respect thereof would be in the public interest, hereby issues its complaint stating its charges in that respect as follows: PARAGRAPH 1. Respondent Plough, Inc., is a corporation organized existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Delaware, with its principal offce and place of business located at 3022 J ,,ckson Avenue in the city of Memphis, State of Tennessee. Respondent Lake-Spiro-Shurman, Inc., is a corporation organized existing and doing business under and by virt.ue of the la \VB of the State of Tennessee, with its principal offce and place of business located at Radio Center Building, :Vhin and Union Streets, in the City of Afemph1s, State of Tennessee.
PAR. 2. Respondent Plough, Inc., is now, and for some time last past has been, enga.ged in the sale and distribution of a preparation which PLOUGH , INC. ) ET AL. 613 583 Complaint 1 t is further ordend That the hearing examiner s initial decision as modified herein be, and it hereby is, adopted as the decision of the Commission.
It is fliTther orde?' That respondents shad, within sixty (60) days after service upon them of this order, file \with the Commission a report, in writing, setting forth in detail the manner and form in which they have complied with the order set forth herein: